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Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted

Posted by Unknown on from the meddling-kids! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, XDA Developers forum users kinfaus and pokey9000 were discussing how the latest devices from Amazon (the second-generation 7 Kindle Fire and the 7 Kindle Fire HD) come with more sophisticated protection than their predecessors, including locked bootloaders and 'high security' features offered by their OMAP processors. Today, the devices have been rooted." Using a known bug in busybox dating to April even.

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  1. Re:Not really an Android tablet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry Amazon. I love the Kindle readers, and I ordered a Paperwhite reader which I'm looking forward to getting, but if I wanted a closed system tablet I could have bought an iPad. I don't want it from Apple, and I don't want it from Amazon either.

    And that's very much your prerogative. However, if there wasn't a huge amount of people who *like it* the way Apple and Amazon do it, they wouldn't be selling their devices the way they do. Doesn't mean Apple or Amazon is wrong. Just means you're not their target demographic.

    The more open Android is targeted at you. I don't see the problem here. You have choices, and you made yours. All good.